Inside your local ATM, your printer, your PDA, and your cell phone is a tiny computer that makes the device do what it’s designed to do. The technical term for that little computer is an “embedded system.” (more…)
At Stanford University’s Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering (ICME), running computational clusters and massively parallel programs for sponsored research demands equally high performance storage. So when the existing network file system servers couldn’t live up to the task, the educational facility turned to storage provider Panasas Inc. (more…)
The greatest way for more webmasters to monetize their websites, is through Googles’ AdSense. There are a lot of webmasters out there trying hard to earn some money through their sites, and then there are some geniuses earning hundreds of dollars a day through AdSense. What makes these webmasters different from the other is that they are different and think outside the box. (more…)
Digital signatures have been legal in the United States since 1998. We don’t see them much, however, in personal or business transactions, unless you count manual signature capture. Whether from ignorance or fear, true e-signatures haven’t seen much uptake, so maybe a success story will change a few minds. That’s DocuSign’s hope, and the technology provider offers its customer Worldspan as proof of concept. (more…)
Wireless networks may be convenient to set up, but wired ethernet has always been faster. Now a new generation of Wi-Fi products is challenging ethernet’s superiority for high-bandwidth apps. We sampled some of the first of these Wi-Fi products–Netgear’s $180 RangeMax 240 Wireless Router and $100 Notebook Adapter–and found that at close range, even with encryption enabled, data speeds were only a little bit slower than on a standard 10/100 megabits-per-second ethernet network. (more…)
1. You Don’t Need Money For Everything
When you have just finished your brand new website i can imagine you would want the whole world to visit it, and preferably keep on coming back for more. If you have money to do some investing in advertisement in any way you have it considerably easier in those first steps then the web master without that cold hard cash backup. But don’t fear if you are not in that money group yet, you don’t need money for everything. It can of course make life a bit easier, but what isn’t there isn’t there and the site still needs to be made popular. (more…)
Ian Ippolito hesitates to claim he founded Rent A Coder. It’s more like the idea found him.
Ippolito was running a software development firm in Tampa, Florida, with more work than he knew what to do with. Whenever he released a new program, people emailed him asking for little modifications. “I had all these people kind of bothering me, and I couldn’t keep up,” Ippolito says. “I saw there was a need out there: People had these small software projects that they wanted to get done, but they didn’t have access to good programmers.” (more…)
This Christmas, I presented my wife with a new Mac mini. I honestly wasn’t sure if she’d be even slightly interested in switching to the Mac, but I figured if she showed no interest in it, I could hold onto it myself or simply return it. To my surprise and delight, my wife was very much interested in the Mac mini and was eager to switch. And about midway through Christmas Day, she started hounding me about setting it up. That’s a good sign. (more…)
About 3 months ago I bought a new clock radio. Last night, I found that I needed to use the alarm for the first time. So I looked at all the buttons, took a wild guess as to how to set the alarm, and managed to change the correct time to the wrong time. (more…)
AMD and Intel once traded blows by pushing processor speeds higher, but heat issues brought the megahertz war to an end. Today’s arms race is about introducing more processor cores. AMD fired the latest shot, announcing in November 2005 that it plans to produce a four-core chip by 2007. Intel has four-core CPU plans, too: The company plans to roll out its first multicore processor, code-named Tigerton, that same year. (more…)